Sentences with phrase «standard is vague»

But that standard is vague enough to cause concern.

-LSB-...] If standards are vague, watered down, or misguided, they can point our schools down perilous paths.

Details about a renewable energy standard are vague, too, but some believe it would require utilities to use 25 % of their energy from clean sources by 2025.

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So again, the book struck me as being fairly vague about the very concept of «inequality» because it does not provide a very insightful perspective into the meaning of «wealth» and how it really relates to our living standards.

In contrast, «no, but» bosses consistently shoot down ideas that aren't their own, resist change (even if it means becoming more efficient) and hold staff to impossible, vague standards.

The US Postal Service delivers periodicals at a discount rate, and the Federal Communication Commission's television station licensing requirements include a vague but meaningful «public interest» standard that is generally held to require both the production of local newscasts and the airing of major national news events.

Her rhetorical style is decidedly not up to Trump's zany standard, but on this day it matched the U.S. president's manner of threat - making that is as ominous as it is vague, and subject to change according to the political whims, or winds.

«If the rumors and distrust persist on this campus, it may very well be because these decisions, by being postured on some vague spiritual «high ground,» have actually engendered a culture of fear,» they wrote in an open letter in the student newspaper, The Moody Standard.

Given the importance of this admittedly vague objective in accreditation standards, we believe that this admission by faculty members is a matter of considerable concern, and we have addressed this issue elsewhere in our research report.

Today it is not the vague humanist who is regarded as the enemy of Communism in, for example, Eastern Germany; it is the Christian, who has standards and loyalties which are rooted in God.

Instead, it adopted a vague resolution that the committee should be involved in «raising of the standards of piety, understanding, and participation in Jewish life.»

The standard for the use of violence is quite vague don't ya think?

The problem is, however, that this standard is extremely vague and indeterminate, based on projective speculation about which parent might in future be the «better» parent, and thus subject to judicial bias and error.

She added that the Legislature has indicated it is comfortable with the vague statutes and standards that allows candidates to decide for themselves which expenses are and are not related to their campaigns.

The Departments of Health and Agriculture will define what are now vague standards and conduct inspections to certify those standards are being met.

Be devoid of any other psychological or physiological effects These criteria, though still quoted with zeal by smart drug enthusiasts today, seem absurdly vague by the standards of mainstream neuroscience.

The story is a vague, world is ending and we need to save it mess, and it does have that old time standard of characters involved in massive, life altering events who seem oblivious to the scope, instead focused on the mundane and adolescent interactions that most characters have.

If Owen is the standard to which all other performances must rise Foster proves to be the bare minimum you can get away with, playing a character so deeply rooted in some ethical and moral grey area you're not sure if she's being intentionally vague or if the actor ever believed in the part.

While the teaser trailer and posters have been vague, selling a standard issue Tom Cruise action movie, the new full trailer gives us a better look at the story for Paramount's holiday tentpole «Jack Reacher».

Even in these areas, however, the NBPTS's «exemplary» standards are so broad and vague as to make concrete judgments of competence nearly impossible.

Improvements in states» academic standards in English / language arts have been widespread since the federal No Child Left Behind Act kicked in three years ago, but the mathematics guidelines are still generally «vague and undemanding,» concludes the latest 50 - state review by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

After months of revisions and rewriting, the Missouri state school board has adopted 75 new academic standards despite criticism that they give too much power to the state and are still too vague.

Unfortunately, those standards were mostly vague, shoddy, or misguided; the tests were simplistic and their «proficiency» bar set too low.

If national standards embrace a vague consensus, then they make no difference since almost everyone already believes them and is already working toward them.

The two greatest risks of the current effort to set common standards are that they will be so prescriptive they will be resisted, or they will be so vague that they can easily be ignored, writes Diane Ravitch.

The PLDD crowd may have gotten almost all states to embrace Common Core standards by dangling federal money and regulatory relief in front of them in the midst of a financial crisis since, again, those standards are just a bunch of vague words in a document.

And if the national standards are more than vague generalities, they inevitably drive what is in the curriculum and how it must be taught.

On the other hand, standards that are too vague can not be usefully enforced.

Across the board, all teachers have to meet 102 standards, many of which are a «vague list of woolly aspirations», Mr Gove believes.

In other words, much (though by no means all) of the «structure» provided by credentialing program standards is illusory; the requirements are sufficiently vague that schools can demonstrate their compliance in virtually countless ways.

Both the Head Start and individual state standards, which are all remarkably similar, are also vague, subjective, and in some cases, controversial, both for academic topics and for the non-cognitive social emotional topics, which are actually required for preschool but not for K - 12.

In Wisconsin, their development coincided with a state effort to replace the state standards adopted in 1998, which were universally considered too vague, and did not describe what students should be able to do and know by the end of each grade.

I also fear that universal high standards and objective assessments are being jettisoned in favor of a return to vague expectations and fuzzy standards.

PORTER - MAGEE: There were so many state standards that were vague to the point of meaninglessness, you know, that just did not articulate the content that students needed to learn and the skills they need to master to be ready for college and beyond.

The standards are also vague and broad, and the overall cost of implementing the standards will be expensive.

And as long as the criteria for what counts as evidence for growth and accomplishment are vague or left to individual teachers, the public will continue to question the movement; they will continue to wonder whose interests are being served by an unwillingness to commit to common standards.

The shift action of the dogleg five - speed through the long, skinny lever is light but also vague by modern standards.

The PRO was fitted with the six - speed manual (the standard transmission for both PRO and LUXE), and its vague gearshift and overly light clutch won't make it a crowd - pleaser.

His reasons were vague, but the gist was that he had a secret self, a cowardly, despicable self he could never show me, and that he needed to go away like a sick animal until he could improve this self and bring it up to a standard he judged deserving of company.

They hold now shows and often the standards are very vague.

The story is a vague, world is ending and we need to save it mess, and it does have that old time standard of characters involved in massive, life altering events who seem oblivious to the scope, instead focused on the mundane and adolescent interactions that most characters have.

Well, there's still some hope left since Nintendo are being their standard old incredibly vague selves and not commenting on any of this, but GameStop / EB Games have said they don't know of any such game and that the displays have been taken down.

The business leaders, clearly addressing the US, which is the now the only and largest emitter of greenhouse gases not to have signed Kyoto or pledged to support a new protocol since the newly elected Australian PM stated he will sign, urge policymakers here to move away from a vague voluntary approach on carbon standards to a mandatory standard.

The couple, who held the passive house standard initially as a vague aspiration, bought a smallholding in 2008 and, during the lengthy planning application, the «opportunities to build to passive house designs economically and efficiently were increasing all the time, so we opted to go for fully passive», says Nick.

While it is disappointingly vague, we can get a sense of where EPA will go in setting replacement standards.

And the absence of a valid 72.34 national standard will leave legislation dealing with records that are dependent upon ERMSs, vague in its requirements, if not unworkable.

We also do not think that the language of «promoting equality, diversity and inclusion» is so vague as to set an impossible standard of professional regulation.

But the regulations don't say what standards must be met to receive approval, other than a vague statement that it «must have a reputation for being operated in a manner that is consistent with the standards of good character and integrity.»

In his essay, Cameron argues that while the Council of Europe standards in this domain may be too vague to provide meaningful safeguards, given the number of actors operating within a fragmented and often out - dated regulatory framework, stemming from the Council of Europe and the EU, the instruments adopted by the Council of Europe and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights still play a fundamental role in this domain.

The terminology used to describe this distinction between specific and vague legal prescriptions varies, the most common formulation in the American literature being an opposition between specific «rules» and vague «standards».